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revince

/ɹɪˈvɪns/

revince verb: to overcome.

Verb

revince (third-person singular simple present revinces, present participle revincing, simple past and past participle revinced)

  1. (obsolete) To overcome.
  2. (obsolete) To refute, as an error; to disprove.
    • testimonies of Scripture revinced1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC

Forms of revince

third-person singular presentrevinces
present participlerevincing
past participlerevinced
pastrevinced

Origin of revince

From Latin revincō.

Questions about revince

What does revince mean?
Revince means to overcome.
What part of speech is revince?
Revince is a verb.
How do you pronounce revince?
Revince is pronounced /ɹɪˈvɪns/.
What is the past tense of revince?
The past tense of revince is revinced.

Words near revince in the dictionary

  1. revilingly
  2. revilings
  3. Revilla
  4. Revillagigedo
  5. Revillas
  6. revince
  7. revinced
  8. revincing
  9. revindicate
  10. revindicated
  11. revindicates

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